Dad got to go home on Saturday – Huzzah! I talked to him briefly before he was discharged and he sounded much better than when I talked to him earlier in the week. Including the stint procedure, a pretty good chunk of the fall has been spent in and around the hospital. I’m sure he’s looking forward to having some home cooked meals in a setting that’s more relaxing. Hopefully he’ll start to regain some of that lost strength.
On the diagnosis side, he and his Dr’s are up against hepatocellular cancer or primary liver cancer not metastatic. It’s more rare in while males evidently and although it can spontaneously occur, it likely that he got it through tainted blood – past surgeries, etc. Got me thinking about donating my own blood if I ever have to have elective surgery. Looks like they’ll wait about 3 weeks or so for him to recover a bit and then start a hepatic artery embolization treatment schedule – 4 treatments spread out over 8 weeks. Assuming he starts around Nov 10th, he should be done with the inital treatment schedule sometime in the 2nd or 3rd week of January. Seems like a longish time for something urgent.
Hopefully Mom can get some rest as well now that Dad’s home – all that traveling back and forth to JC, not to mention being at home by herself couldn’t have been good on her physical and emotional well being. Still thinking about going home for Thanksgiving.
